Zhuang Gu Guan Jie Wan Functional Groupings

• Primary Category: Expel Dampness
• Subcategory: Dispel Wind-Dampness

Du Zhong

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Eucommia Bark

Usages

• Tonify liver and kidneys, strengthen sinews and bones - weak, painful knees and lower back, fatigue, frequent urination.
• Promotes smooth flow of qi and blood circulation.
• Calms the fetus - for cold deficient kidney patterns with bleeding during pregnancy, prevents miscarriages from deficiency.
• Recently used for dizziness from liver yang rising (hypertension).

Xu Duan

Japanese Teasel Root

Usages

• Tonify liver and kidney, strengthen sinews and bones - lower back and/or knee weakness and pain, stiff joints.
• Tonify without causing stagnation.
• Stops uterine bleeding, calms the fetus - bleeding during pregnancy, threatened miscarriage.
• Promote blood circulation, alleviate pain, generate flesh - traumatic injuries in the lower back and legs, external conditions such as sores.

Du Huo

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Angelica Root

Usages

• Dispels wind-cold-damp - bi syndromes, especially lower back and legs (acute/chronic).
• Shao yin stage headache and toothache.

Sheng Di Huang

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Rehmannia

Usages

• Clears Heat, Cools Blood. High fever, thirst, scarlet tongue, hemorrhage due to heat in the Blood.
• Nourishes Yin, Generates Fluids. Yin Deficiency with heat signs with injury to body fluids. Dry mouth, low-grade fever, constipation, throat pain from yin deficiency.
• Cools Ascending Heart Fire (HT, LV). Mouth and tongue sores, irritability, insomnia, malar flush.
• Wasting thirst disorder.

This formula has cautions, see details